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Stephanie Lee, a second-year medical student at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Joshua Wynne, vice president for Health Affairs at UND and dean of the SMHS, signed the first RuralMed Scholar contract on May 20. Lee is a native of Mercer, a community in west-central North Dakota with a population of 75 […]

The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Health Care Center in Sisseton, S.D., and Thomas M. Seaworth, M.D., of Detroit Lakes, Minn., received Charles E. Kupchella Preventive Medicine and Wellness Awards. Named for former UND President Charles E. Kupchella, the fourth-annual Kupchella Wellness Awards were given during the School of Medicine and Health Sciences M.D. Class of 2010 commencement […]

Xiquan Dong and Baike Xi in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences recently received $348,357 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to improve satellite-derived data that are used to figure out what’s going on in the Earth’s atmosphere. That’s the broad-brush picture of what this research is about. More specifically, this UND research project […]

Grünergy Technologies PLC (Frankfurt: GN1) announced the launch and commercialization of its proprietary “Total Mercury Control” solution through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Grünergy Technologies USA Inc. and Grünergy Technologies Canada Inc. Grünergy’s mission is to offer the most advanced and innovative mercury emissions control technologies in the world for the electric utility industry. The company […]

Grünergy Technologies PLC (Frankfurt: GN1) announced the launch and commercialization of its proprietary “Total Mercury Control” solution through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Grünergy Technologies USA Inc. and Grünergy Technologies Canada Inc. Grünergy’s mission is to offer the most advanced and innovative mercury emissions control technologies in the world for the electric utility industry. The company […]

UND anthropologist Frank Cuozzo heads for his eighth year of field research on lemurs in their only natural habitat: the forests of Madagascar. Lemurs—named after Roman mythological ghosts—may shed a big light on climate change and its environmental impacts. Cuozzo, working with an interdisciplinary, international, multi-institution team, heads to Madagascar on a $199,000 National Science […]

Please join us for the groundbreaking of the new Education Building addition at 11 a.m. Friday, June 4. The ceremony will be held on the north side of the Education Building (231 Centennial Drive). For any questions or directions, contact Jena Pierce at 777-0844 or jena.pierce@und.edu or visit www.edbuilding.und.edu. — Education.

North Dakota SUNRISE faculty from both UND and NDSU will host tribal college and graduating high school senior students for the Native American Freshman Research Experience May 24—June 4. The students will spend these two weeks working in laboratories with SUNRISE faculty mentors as well as participating in programs designed to introduce them to North […]

Laurel Vermillion, a lifelong resident of the Standing Rock Reservation who is president of Sitting Bull College, has received the Distinguished Alumni Achievement award from the University of North Dakota (UND) College of Education and Human Development (CEHD). Vermillion was one of seven alumni who were honored at the recent CEHD awards banquet for their […]

An independent, nationally recognized research firm has ranked two University of North Dakota degree programs among the country’s very best values. GetEducated.com, LLC, an online education research company which reviews and ranks accredited online university degree programs, ranked the UND online Master of Public Administration (MPA) as No. 3 and the online Master of Business […]

A group of eight University of North Dakota mechanical and electrical engineering students have built a remotely operated robot capable of collecting more than 20 kg of lunar simulant (simulated moon dirt) in about three minutes. Part of the NASA sponsored Lunabotics Mining Competition, the robot was designed by the team over the last year. […]

The School of Medicine and Health Sciences will confer the Master of Physician Assistant Studies (M.P.A.S.) degree during commencement ceremonies at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 15, in the Alerus Center. Sixty candidates will receive the degree. They are the thirty-seventh class to graduate from the UND Physician Assistant (PA) Program. The graduates participate in a […]

On Saturday, May 15, internationally known businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Howard Dahl will be able to add “Doctor of Letters” to his long list of accomplishments.  A 1971 graduate from the University of North Dakota, Dahl will receive the honorary degree from his Alma Mater at the Spring Commencement, starting at 1:30 p.m. in the Alerus […]

UND alum Robert Henry, who farms near Newburg, N.D., with his wife Wanda, recently donated a collection of rare Civil War history books to the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections at the Chester Fritz Library. The collection contains books by and about some of the most recognized names in American history, including Ulysses […]

Faculty and administrative staff are encouraged to march in the general commencement ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 15, in the Alerus Center. The ceremony will begin at 1:30 p.m.  Faculty and administrative staff are asked to wear academic regalia, report to the Hawk Room and then assemble in the Ballroom no later than 1 […]